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i have a chance to pick up virtual pc 6.1 for next to nothing and am wondering if i should for my g3 imac running 9.2 and 10.2. this machine is not hooked up to the internet so it's impossible for me to download any malware. question: is there much malware floating around out there on cd's. my only other interaction with the outside world is that i occasionally hook this machine up to an ipod photo. i am totally unfamiliar with windows.

It's slow because there is a huge performance hit in emulating an intel processor, and on top of that the machine has to handle the footprint of running Windows. Your G3 probably doesn't have enough RAM to do this, which means that your performance will be killed on both counts.